Cheers & jeers 2/3/13

Cheers to West Pittston Tomorrow, a grassroots group formed in the wake of devastating flooding in 2011 to facilitate recovery efforts.

Jeers to Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton for continuing to stall on convening a hearing to consider ending the city's contract with LAG Towing despite months of complaints and allegations of price-gouging and other contract violations.

Cheers to Joe Amato, a former drag racing champion and successful business owner who's purchasing the Movies 14 complex and is hoping to bring a grocery, a deli and other shops to empty retail space there.

Jeers to Newport Township ambulance officials who, when answering a call to help a child having a seizure, didn't ask for assistance from the closest paramedic unit in Nanticoke, less than two miles away. Instead, they relied on a controversial new protocol that first summoned paramedics from 10 miles away in Shickshinny, thus ruling out the quickest possible response time.

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